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About Yanic A.

Hello to all of you and thank you for stopping by!
My name is Yanic. I'm a wife to a wonderful husband, a mother of 2 beautifully complex and unique children and a lover of all things inspiring. Having started a personal journey of self discovery when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter 4 years ago, I've since embraced a daily life of simpler pleasures and gratitude. As we get to know each other, you will know me as a quilter, a gardener, a Tao cultivator, a vegetarian foodie, a true believer in a healthy family life as being the secret to my happiness and hopefully as time goes on, a friend... I will try to share with you my days as they unfold, speaking of my happy successes without censoring my challenges, trying to make this blog a true portrait of the ever-changing path that I have chosen for myself.
I'm hoping to find in these pages others to share with and learn from, bringing to light the absolute connection in all things and people, showing this world as being a true community.

Goen is a Yiddish word that means “brilliant man.” I’m a linguist, so it took a long time to find the perfect name. Seven weeks after he was born, in fact. Boen’s story is beautiful. I love all the meanings and stories infused in names. It is the only thing we are guaranteed to keep for our whole life. It’s important to make it special.

Thank you… Boen was a little boy I met in South Africa 20 years ago. He was 10 years old, spoke 4 different language and helped his mom create a soup kitchen for his school in a very poor township around Cape Town. He wanted to be a teacher or a doctor because he wanted to help people. He inspired me so much, he was the first kid I met that made me WANT kids… So I always said if I had a little boy, I would name him after him.

I searched for the meaning and I could only find references to the German family name. Makes sense that it made it’s way to South Africa. In Norway, it is used to designate a farm or meadow. Many sites seem to say it’s just a different spelling of the traditional celtic, it means son of Owen.

So I will keep my meaning of the little boy that inspired me to one day become a mother. I often wonder where he is today. 🙂

So beautiful! I spend a few days in Cape Town while traveling the globe on a boat in college. Such a beautiful and troubled place. I ate at a little restaurant in a township that was run by one woman out of her own house–her living room filled up with tables and chairs of all assortment. Some of the most delicious food I have eaten. Of the many places I have been, Cape Town holds a special place in my heart–I think because of the interesting juxtaposition of so many different and amazing people. I often thought I might live there one day. But, life often has other plans!

No way! I must be a bit younger than you, I sailed in Fall 04, and graduated Spring 05. One of the most amazing experiences of my life, of course, aside from my wedding day and holding my children in my arms for the first time!

I heard about a book called “make it mighty ugly” by Kim Werker that is about finding and reclaiming that freedom of creation. I requested it from my library and I’m super excited to read it. It’s unfortunate that we lose that freedom as we grow and are influenced by those around us. I hope I can relearn little of it from this book.

That sounds like an amazing book. I may have to invest… I’m sure both my husband and I would get something from that. My husband is an artist and lately, he’s been getting less inspired because, and I quote, he gets “too much in his own head about it”. There is one I have on my wish list called : The Drawing Mind: Silence Your Inner Critic And Release Your Creative Spirit. I really hope to get it someday. 🙂

First art work is very special. And could be a sign of things to come here, maybe the days of dive bombing off the dining room chairs are soon to switch to sitting on them drawing for hours on end! Here’s hoping for you!